Summary In their function as a specific form of evaluation in the educational system, large-scale assessments are used to describe overall structures, salient features, and outcomes of educational processes. Whether this kind of evaluation is meaningful ...

Summary Ascertaining the effectiveness of a motivational training is considered one of the most difficult functions of evaluation research since one must account for numerous biases that can distort the results. When conducting an evaluation of a complex ...

Summary The German Pupils Academy (Deutsche Schüler-Akademie) is a summer-school program for highly gifted secondary-school students. Three types of program evaluation were conducted. Input evaluation confirmed the participants as intellectually highly ...

Summary In this paper, conceptual and methodological problems of school program evaluation are discussed. The data were collected in conjunction with a 10 year cross-sectional/longitudinal investigation with partial inclusion of control groups. The ...

Summary Perceived self-efficacy represents an optimistic sense of personal competence that seems to be a pervasive phenomenon accounting for motivation and accomplishments in human beings. The General Self-Efficacy scale, developed to measure this ...

Summary When psychologists are given a question by a client they have to decide if they have the necessary knowledge - and if the client's question meets legal, ethical, and professional standards. We constructed a checklist containing eight rules for the ...

Summary This work analyzes the relationship between the different CDI factors, nonsocialized personality traits as measured by the Psychoticism and Antisocial Behavior EPQ scales, academic achievement, and general intelligence. Participants in this study ...